Includes bibliographical references

A Junior Library Guild selection

Ages 10 up

It is 1946, and Dewey Kerrigan is now living near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family. Dewey and her "sister," Suze, share secrets, art, and science as they adjust to high school in an isolated desert town. Then, Dewey's long-lost mother, Rita Gallucci, reappears in their lives

One world or none -- First rocket -- What goes up -- I'm a stranger here myself -- The lucky ones -- The thing in the attic -- Adaptation -- The letter of the law -- Shadow, shadow on the wall -- The power and the glory -- All on a summer's night -- Minority report -- The square pegs -- Surface tension -- Helping hand -- Ex machina -- Repair job -- Breaking point -- The shape of things -- Relativity -- The visitors -- Superiority -- Illusion -- No place for tears -- Battleground -- Ask me anything -- Margin for error -- Milk run -- The dark room -- Patent pending -- The troublemakers -- Sorry, right number -- Palace of darkness -- The naming of names -- History lesson -- First contact -- Family resemblance -- Uneasy lies the head -- Operating instructions -- The wind between the worlds -- Chaos, coordinated -- The answer -- The sky is falling -- Let the finder beware -- And the walls came tumbling down -- Author's note -- Acknowledgments

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